Periodical Reviews -- By: James F. Rand

Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 114:456 (Oct 1957)
Article: Periodical Reviews
Author: James F. Rand


Periodical Reviews

James F. Rand

Barnette, Henlee H., “Pastoral Counselling of Candidates for Church Vocations,” Review and Expositor, 54:3:432–40, July, 1957.

A survey of five hundred students in a Southern Baptist seminary reveals that only one third of them talked with their pastors as much as an hour about their decision to enter a church vocation. This startling statistic in this article by a professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville brings into sharp focus an area of pastoral counselling which should not be neglected. He points out that in many cases there is evident confusion among young people who enroll in seminaries but do not understand the “meaning of being ‘called’ into special Christian service,” and “have not settled in their minds just what specific church vocation to enter.” Barnette points out that “there are at least three specific things that a pastor can do to nurture and encourage the growth of young preachers” both before they enter school and during the time of preparation. “First, he can provide clinical supervision in the work gf pastor,” allowing the young preacher to accompany him on pastoral visits, sit in committee meetings, teach him the fundamentals of sermon preparation. “Second, the pastor may wisely guide the candidate in practical matters which will contribute to big getting started in the right direction and give him a chance to exercise his gift of preaching.” “Finally, the pastor can help the young preacher to face up to his personal problems and to resolve them. His major problems are: choosing and financing education, feelings of personal unworthiness, problems of theological thought, and problems of courtship and marriage. Pastoral counselling from the beginning of the candidate’s decision would save him from frustration later on.” These would seem to be worthy suggestions for all pastors to adopt to their own Particular situation.

Hunter, Donald M., “The Sabbath Question,” Our Hope, 64:2:77–90, August, 1957.

This outstanding Bible study magazine came under criticism some months ago for its endorsement of the new movement approving seventh-day Adventists as evangelicals. It is commendable, however, that Our Hope also began a series of articles “on certain doctrines wherein we believe that Seventh-day Adventism errs.” This article is the last of the series which included presentations of their position on eternal punishment, the intermediate State, the cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary, the two goats of Leviticus 16, and the sinless human nature of Christ. This concluding article presents the doctrine by which this sect is most popularly known. The author

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